Take a cosmic tour through space with @NASAWebb

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Fly by thousands of galaxies starting with nearby ones and ending with farther less-developed ones. There's even one that had never been seen until the James Webb Space Telescope discovered it. Each second in this scientific visualization amounts to traveling 200 million light-years farther into the past. The data set was captured as part of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey. Maisie's Galaxy the farthest one here was one of the first bright extremely distant galaxies found by Webb. The telescope's powerful instruments can capture light from early galaxies which has been shifted to infrared wavelengths by the expansion of the universe. Infrared light is invisible to the unaided human eye. Credit: Visualization: Frank Summers (STScl) Greg Bacon (STScl) Joseph DePasquale (STScl) Leah Hustak (STScl) Joseph Olmsted (STScl)

Fly by thousands of galaxies, starting with nearby ones and ending with farther, less-developed ones. There's even one that had never been seen until the James Webb Space Telescope discovered it. Each second in this scientific visualization amounts to traveling 200 million light-years farther into the past. The data set was captured as part of the CEERS (Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science) Survey.

Maisie's Galaxy, the farthest one here, was one of the first bright, extremely distant galaxies found by Webb. The telescope's powerful instruments can capture light from early galaxies, which has been shifted to infrared wavelengths by the expansion of the universe. Infrared light is invisible to the unaided human eye.

Credit: Visualization: Frank Summers (STScI), Greg Bacon (STScI), Joseph DePasquale (STScI), Leah Hustak (STScI), Joseph Olmsted (STScI), Alyssa Pagan (STScI)/Music: Maarten Schellekens/Science: Steve Finkelstein (UT Austin), Rebecca Larson (RIT), Micaela Bagley (UT Austin)

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